My son used to eat only crackers, oatmeal, and pizza, milk, corn flakes. He was extremely picky and wouldn't even eat anything sweet.

Hi stomach was always bloated, loose stools, gas all the time, and would laugh uncontrollably after eating his oatmeal.

We started GFCF in Aug/2012 and it's made a HUGE difference. Lack of eye contact, loose stools, crazy laughing all but disappeared within a week . We now cook everything from scratch and he eats foods I never thought he would eat -- eggs, fruit smoothies, chex cereal/soy milk, cornbread, curry chicken, rice, fish...etc. For some reason, his picky eating really improved after the diet change.

Forgot to mention that DD had tested negative twice for celiac (2nd time extended panel) and twice for wheat allergy (again 2nd time extended panel). She also didn't have any obvious GI symptoms. I highly encourage all parents to do a trial of GFCF for 6 months followed by a challenge to see if it makes any difference.

I was super-nervous about trying GFCF with my daughter because she was such a picky eater, and nearly all of the handful of foods she would eat were gluten- or dairy-heavy. I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that eliminating the problem ingredients caused her to become much more willing to eat a variety of foods. I really think there is something to the whole opiates theory, where our kids get addicted to the brain "highs" that gluten and casein cause to the point where that's all they want to eat. At Thanksgiving 2011 before we made the switch, all DD ate were rolls with peanut butter and plain mashed potatoes. At Thanksgiving 2012, she ate ham, sweet potatoes, carrots, cranberry sauce, GFCF cornbread, and washed it all down with a green smoothie.

thanks everyone for the great advice im going to use it

It might be the dairy my daughter had diarrhea from milk for a year before I figured it out. Now she does not drink milk. She has to take a multivitamin every day so she has the vitamin she lacks from milk. Also try giving his drinks and meals on a schedule. Like juice with breakfast when he gets up then a drink and snack in between lunch and breakfast. Then lunch. Then a snack and drink. Between lunch and and dinner. Then a final snack and drink after dinner but an hour at least before bed. She also has a variety of drinks through out the day. Lots of water or water drinks like kool aide and 7up because it has corn syrup which can help with constipation. It takes three or more tries to get a child to eat something new. Try making jello jugglers and cutting them out in shapes.